The fifth call for applications to the WATERLAT-GOBACIT Student Prize was for dissertations approved between 1 January and 31 December 2017 and closed on 28 February 2018. We had 8 applications, 5 for the Masters Prize and 3 for the Doctoral Prize. We appointed an Evaluation Commission composed by academics from our Network and invited external evaluators. We provide below the details of the Evaluation Commission. The results of the competition were announced on 5 September 2018 during the IX International Meeting of the WATERLAT-GOBACIT Network.
The Prize
Doctoral Prize 2018
Cindy Claudia McCulligh. Thesis title: “Sewer of progress: Industry and State in the pollution of the Santiago river, Jalisco, Mexico” (in Spanish). PhD in Social Sciences, with specialization in Social Anthropology, Centre for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS), Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, 2017. Downloadable here.
Masters Prize 2018
Alma Rosa Barranco Salazar. Thesis title: “Knowledges, values and social organization of community management of the Drinking Water System in Zothe, Huichapan, Hidalgo, Mexico” (in Spanish). MA in Sustainable Water Management, El Colegio de San Luis (COLSAN), San Luis Potosi, Mexico, 2017. Downloadable here.
Also, given the quality of the applications, the Editorial Commission decided to invite all other candidates to submit an article based on their thesis for publication in the Network’s Working Papers Series.
This is the full list of participating candidates:
Doctoral Prize
Cindy Claudia McCulligh. Thesis title: “Sewer of progress: Industry and State in the pollution of the Santiago river, Jalisco, Mexico” (in Spanish). PhD in Social Sciences, with specialization in Social Anthropology, Centre for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS), Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, 2017. Downloadable here.
Hildelano Delanusse Theodoro. Thesis title: “Analysis of water resources management: a case study of the Rio das Velhas Basin Committee, Minas Gerais, Brazil” (in Portuguese). PhD in Water and Sanitation, Environment, and Water Resources, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 2017. Downloadable here.
Melina Tobías. Thesis title: “Water politics, socio-technical controversies and territorial conflicts in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area, Argentina (2006-2015)” (in Spanish). PhD in Social Sciences and Geography, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, France, 2017. Downloadable here.
Masters Prize
Alma Rosa Barranco Salazar. Thesis title: “Knowledges, values and social organization of community management of the Drinking Water System in Zothe, Huichapan, Hidalgo, Mexico” (in Spanish). MA in Sustainable Water Management, El Colegio de San Luis (COLSAN), San Luis Potosi, Mexico, 2017. Downloadable here.
Carolina Filippon. Thesis title: “Agreements on the governance of environmental goods within a extractivist framework” (in Spanish). MA in Environmental and Urban Law, National University of the Littoral (UNL), Santa Fe, Argentina, 2017.
Andrés Felipe Jimenez Gómez. Thesis title: “Nurturing the mountain, water and life: peasant hydro-communitarian processes and accumulation by water dispossession in the Complejo de Páramos de Sonsón, Antioquia, Colombia” (in Spanish). MA in Sustainable Water Management, El Colegio de San Luis (COLSAN), San Luis Potosi, Mexico, 2017. Downloadable here.
Renato de Toledo Peres. Thesis title: “Water as a territorial resource for agriculture: the case of Holambra, Sao Paulo, Brazil” (in Portuguese). MA in Geography, Sao Paulo State University “Julio de Mesquita Filho” (UNESP), Rio Claro, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2017. Downloadable here.
María Alejandra Villada Ríos. Thesis title: “Towards a politics of the common good. Experience of community management in the municipality of Tamesis, Antioquia, Colombia” (in Spanish). MA in Sustainable Water Management, El Colegio de San Luis (COLSAN), San Luis Potosi, Mexico, 2017. Downloadable here.
Evaluation Commission, 2018 edition of the WATERLAT-GOBACIT Student’s Prize
Dr Joan Cortinas, IGlobe Unit, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States
Dr María Angélica Maciel Costa, Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ), Rural Area – Seropedica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Dr Andre Monteiro Costa, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
Dr Luciano Florit, Regional University of Blumenau, Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Dr Ana Paula Fracalanza, University of Sao Paulo (USP), Sao Paulo, Brazil
Dr Kathryn Furlong, Université de Montréal, Departement de Géographie, Montreal, Québec, Canada
Dr Claudia Gasca Moreno, University of Guanajuato, León, Guanajuato, Mexico
Dr Gonzalo Hatch Kuri, Centre for Research on North America, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico
Dr Sandra Hincapié, Political Science Academic Unit, Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mexico
Dr Jorge Ivars, National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), Regional Centre, and National University of Cuyo (UNCUYO), Mendoza, Argentina
Dr Raúl Pacheco-Vega, Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE), Public Administration Division, Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Mexico
Dr Alice Poma, Institute of Social Research (IIS), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico
Dr Tania Rodríguez Echavarría, School of Political Science, University of Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica
Dr Lourdes Magdalena Romero Navarrete, Centre for Higher Research and Studies in Social Anthropology, Mexico City, Mexico
Dr Adriana Sandoval Moreno, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Jiquilpan, Michoacan, Mexico
Dr Martín Sanzana Calvet, Institute of Strategic Studies for Human Development, Concepcion, Bio Bio, Chile
Dr Inmaculada Simón Ruiz, Autonomous University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
Dr Alejandro Torres-Abreu, Transdisciplinary Institute of Social Research-Action, Department of Social Sciences, University of Puerto Rico in Humacao, Humacao, Puerto Rico
Dr Armando Gallo Yahn Filho, Federal University of Uberlândia, Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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